Optic Nerve - Angel Numbers
Optic Nerve - Angel Numbers [2023]
URGE RECORDS
While still better known for its beach vistas and senate corruption, real heads know that the city of Sydney, Australia has consistently produced some of the most vital underground music of at least the last fifteen years. And amongst this fertile ground, Optic Nerve have emerged as one of its most compelling artists. Their debut album "Angel Numbers" is irrefutable proof.
0:00 Bird Bath
3:42 Gargoyle
6:43 Tonic
9:44 Ball & Claw
11:51 Interlude
13:38 Pendant
16:04 Trap Door
22:08 Basket
23:52 Bead Shop
26:26 Leash
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Notes on the long player...
Optic Nerve’s Angel Numbers appears in fragments. That is, in quotes, references, mimicry, histories and gossip. The music and the words, the signs and the symbols, the smoke and the mirrors. Citations are magic - like any good incantation they absolve the lyric (I) into a collective chorus.
Angel Numbers, named antagonistically as both a dig and a spade, operates for the listener who sees signs — everywhere. Who bends context for themselves and others.
Angel Numbers has character. A single character, mainly. She appears (as a fragment) across the songs and their various lyric cries. The character of Angel Numbers is Marguerite Porete. Porete was a French Christian Mystic, who lived across the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Porete is best known for her book The Mirror of Simple Souls, speculated to have been initially written in 1290 ce. The full title of the work is The Mirror of the Simple Souls Who Are Annihilated and Remain Only in Will and Desire of Love, and it explores the Greco-Roman New Testament concept of divine love (Agape.)
Specifically it identifies faith as an act of love to oneself — independent and sovereign from the state. Porete locates greater meaning and purpose in deep, personal love. Desire as divination.
Sometime at the turn of the fourteenth century Porete’s writing was deemed heretical. Condemned by the Catholic church for reproducing sections of the Bible in vernacular French, as opposed to Latin, the Bishop of Cambrai ordered for Porete to be present as the church burned all copies of her writing, and she was condemned from ever producing the text again.
Nevertheless, Porete continued to publish The Mirror of Simple Souls. Around 1308 she was caught distributing copies of the book to bishops, and turned over to the Inquisitor of France. A longer trial ensued: in publishing in vernacular French she’d tainted the word of god, in disobeying the church’s rule she’d affronted the governance of state-oriented-faith, and in writing a feminised, personal and desirous conception of belief she’d identified god as a free spirit, not an institution to serve.
During her trial, and her time imprisoned before it began, Porete never spoke once to the Inquisitors. During the proceedings she refused to take oath, did not talk, or cooperate. She refused to say where copies of the text had been sent, or commit to ceasing publication of the text. She refused to retract her conception of faith against (or at least, beyond) the state. She was given the opportunity to confess heresy, be imprisoned for a period of time, then be free. In refusing to speak to the courts she was sentenced instead, to burn at the stake as a heretic.
In 1310 Porete was burnt at the stake in a Parisian public square. Depictions of the scene show her smiling and peaceful - willingly embracing her fate, wholly and totally committed to her will, desire and faith in love. These images have been studied and celebrated by “witches” across time.
Angel Numbers is about refusal. It locates desire for the slant, the vagrant, and the subaltern as foundationally against the state. Desire becomes a spiritual and bodily commitment to oneself that is necessarily always against the colony, the state, police, borders and all forms of forced enclosure — physical, mental and somatic. Porete, in disregarding the institutions that mal-distribute human life and value, shows a commitment to love and care that is greater than the state’s necropolitics can ever muster.
These desires are more than state life. They’re incongruous, illegible and threatening to normative populations, modes of governance, labour markets and systems of exploitation. Desire imagines new worlds.
Angel Numbers is written as a lyric character study of references, indebted to those who came before us, towards incomplete futures. Through cruising hardcore, country sensibilities, dub, missaproriated Madonna lyrics, this is a record of mysticism and refusal.
If you desire like us, your desires will always exist beyond the constraints of this violent world.
You remain only in faith & love.
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